An Ordinance To Regulate the Sale, Storage, and keeping of Gunpowder and other Explosive and Dangerous Materials, within the limits of the City of Bayonne, §1-5 (NJ, 24 Nov., 1877).
"Sec. 1. That no person or persons shall sell or expose for sale within the limits of the City of Bayonne, any gunpowder without having first obtained a license from the Mayor and Council of the City of Bayonne as hereinafter provided, under the penalty of twenty dollars for each offence.
Sec. 2. That no person or persons shall keep, store, or have in their possession or custody, gunpowder within the limits of the City of Bayonne, in a greater quantity than fifteen pounds at any one place, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each day said gunpowder is so kept, stored or had in his, her or their posession or custody.
Sec. 3. That before any person or persons shall sell or expose for sale any gunpowder within the limits of the City of Bayonne, he, she or they shall make application to the Mayor and Council of the City of Bayonne for a license so to do, which application shall be signed by at least five freeholders resident in the City of Bayonne, and shall not be granted until the next stated meeting of the Council after the said application is received. The Council may grant such license by a resolution passed by at least a majority of concurring votes and approved by the Mayor, or by such action as becomes necessary in cases of nonapproval by him of ordinances or resolutions affecting the city. Such license shall be valid for one year from the date of the granting thereof. The yeas and nays upon the passage of such resolution shall in all cases be recorded upon the minutes. Before any licenses so granted shall be valid, it must be first taken out and paid for, and hung up in a conspicuous place in the premises where the applicant carries on or intends to carry on the business of selling gunpowder. Every license so granted shall be sealed with the corporate seal signed by the Mayor attested by the City Clerk. The Council may revoke or annul any such license granted, in case the person or persons so licensed shall offend against any part of this ordinance. Every person or persons so licensed shall pay to the Collector of Revenue the sum of two dollars before such license shall be delivered to him, her or them.
Sec. 4. No person or persons shall keep, store or have in his, her or their possession or custody within the limits of the City of Bayonne, any nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder, or any other dangerous and explosive substance, (except gunpowder in the hands of licensed dealers or fireworks in the hands of a person or persons having a permit from the Mayor and Council) unless specially authorized to do so by a resolution of the Council approved by the Mayor, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each day said substances or any of them are or is so kept, stored or had in his, her or their posession or custody.
Sec. 5. No person or persons shall sell or expose for sale any fire works of any kind or description, within the limits of the City of Bayonne, unless he, she or they shall have first obtained from the Mayor and Council of the City of Bayonne a permit so to do, which permit shall be granted on such terms, conditions and limitations as said Mayor and Council may prescribe and require, under a penalty of Ten dollars for each and every offence."
Ordinances of the City of Bayonne, From 1869 to 1894 (Bayonne, NJ: The Rinker Printing Co., 1894), 338-340.